From Contested Territories to alternatives of development
Learning from Latin America
Dr Gabriel Silvestre, Dr Jorge Catalá, Dr Josep Cru, Dr Lorenza Fontana, Daniel Mallo, Dr Gabriel Silvestre, Armelle Tardiveau, Dr Sharon Velasquez Orta are working together on this project which started in January 2022 and is due for completion in December 2025. Funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme this project also includes work from the following partner institutions; Universität Leipzig – lead partner (Germany), University of Leeds (UK), University of Sheffield (UK), Universidad Autonoma De Madrid (Spain), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (France), Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), Universidad de Chile, Universidad de la Frontera (Chile), Flacso (Ecuador), Universidad Mayor de San Andres (Bolivia), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), and Centro de Estudios Urbanos y Regionales (Argentina). This work is being supported by non-academic partners such as Torero Film (Germany), Basurama (Spain), Habita65 (Portugal), La Hidra (Spain), and Asociacion Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (Argentina).
Synopsis of the research project
The overall objective of CONTESTED_TERRITORY is to form an international and intersectoral network of organisations from across Europe and Latin America on a joint research programme that pursues conceptual and empirical knowledge generation on innovative and sustainable bottom-up models of territorial development. We consider community-led practice enacting alternative knowledge as basis for a productive framework to grasp transformations of space and society supporting local-to-global knowledge diffusion. In particular, the RISE action will deliver novel understandings on how ordinary people produce innovative models for more sustainable and resilient environments. By this, we will learn how they shape, negotiate, imagine and collaboratively manage territories in contested and uneven power relations and how they progress models of social integration.
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